The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.